Why Minecraft Players Built a Real Life Supercomputer
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Published 2024-04-02
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Seed Cracking 101
3:33 - Seed Finding 101
5:10 - Tall Cacti
10:52 - The Search Begins
11:55 - VERY Tall Cacti
15:06 - The Supercomputer
21:02 - The Future
MUSIC (In order of appearance)
C418 - Chirp
C418 - Wait
C418 - Divide by Four Add Seven
HOME - The Moment Before
HOME - Hold
Home - 9
Foewi - Negative Gravity
DMDOKURO - Theme of the Sunken Sea
Home - Tides
BOINC PROJECTS (TO GIVE PROCESSING POWER!)
boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list
EXTRA CREDITS / SOURCES
HyenaDae, CactusDuper, Matthew Bolan, KaptainWutax, Cortex, BoySanic, Dutchen18, Matt (2869), NeilSeed, Tomlacko, vcokltfre - Helping me research this video and for checking my script
NeilSeed - Providing much of the history of seed cracking through a video on his channel ( / @neilseed )
Boysanic - Didn't talk about his part too much in the video but he played a large part in modifying BOINC to work better with GPUs
Minecraft@Home Team - For doing these insane projec
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Kaktwoos Source Code - github.com/BalintCsala/kaktwoos
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CORRECTION
I don't know how I missed this, but the naive approach definitely wouldn't require 200,000 seeds per second, I meant 200,000 seeds per day. Not really a big issue but a couple people pointed it out.
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All Comments (21)
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Its really sad that computational power is being wasted fighting disease when it could be used to find a taller cactus
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So y’all basically surpassed the strongest super computer in America just to find tall cactus in block game? Crazy
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life goals: 1. find largest cactus in block game 2. solve world hunger 3. defeat cancer
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Fun fact: when the minecraft@home team was trying to find the seed for the minecraft skull painting, they were beaten by a single dude who found it first with his over optimized code.
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istg if the minecraft community found interstallar travel sufficiently humorous they could do it in a weekend
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2b2t players : i recognize that grass pattern
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Welcome to Minecraft, we got people who built a one to one replica of a city, someone who built a actual functioning Minecraft computer with the processing power of the computer memory cap that took people to the moon, and a bunch of people that made a collaborative effort and ended up with a central processing power that would place it at 33rd in the global supercomputer ranking, above America’s strongest supercomputer, just for the sole reason of finding cactus.
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“Some call it a waste of time; others, an incredible waste of time.”
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Cactus is not the only one to have beef with government💀
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"Sir, our intelligence has stated that one of our supercomputers at the Pentagon has been seized by unknown individuals and is currently in use!" "What are they doing with it?" "Uuh.... it appears... they are... ....playing Minecraft with it?"
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NASA: spends billions of dollars on plans to get to the moon, but is still 2 years away from a manned lunar landing Minecraft community: "we want tall cactus, we will get tall cactus"
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the Minecraft community just needs to recruit rainbolt.
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This shows how much determination nerds have when they get fixated on something.
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its cactus time
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-Average theorist, thinking how Thomas Edison would react to a Modern Flatscreen TV. -Minecraft theorist, wondering how 2000's Notch would react to his little block simulator leading to a Gov Rivaling Super Computer on the search for One Tall Spikey Boi.
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Government with supercomputer: we use super computer for radar and other important stuff Minecrafters with supercomputer: B I G C A C T U S
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Mom can we have Minecraft? No we have Minecraft@Home
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HyenaDae / Hypps here, thanks for the recap video! We're all glad with the results and solving many of the lost seeds over those two years of work. There's still lots of cool things for individuals to find on their own, in both new and old minecraft versions. New challenges or speedruns brings new computations potentially needed. I believe the tallest Non-Natural cactus was 24 tall, but only on a superflat with modified sand base layer pre-1.16 :)
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youre saying that we invented a sci-fi supercomputer... just so we could find a giant ass cactus Humanity has peaked.
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0:19 the version in the top-left corner probably saved this hunt, imagine if the seed hunters had to track every version as well, cuz terrain generation changed quite a bit over the years
